Possessed By Him: The Alpha's Trophy
I didn't draw my steel, but my thumb flicked the guard of my blade free of the sheath with a quiet, metallic click.
Morgana stepped out from the shadow of the arched doorway leading to the high archives. She was dressed in her dark velvet strategist’s cloak, her hood pulled low over her head. In her left hand, she gripped a small, sealed leather scroll tube. Her face was pale in the torchlight, her dark eyes wide with a frantic, desperate intensity.
She froze when she saw me standing directly outside the room, her fingers tightening around the leather tube before she masked her panic with her usual arrogant grace.